Late Tang Dynasty: I, rebuild the Guangwu Zhongxing

In the sixth year of Xiantong, the Tang Dynasty was engulfed in war. Invaders pressed at the borders, and the people’s livelihoods crumbled. The once-glorious empire had fallen into decline, with vassal towns rising in rebellion across the land—signs of an approaching era of chaos. A modern soul awakens as Li Hongyi, a frontier soldier, with no system to rely on and no noble family to back him. Armed only with courage and foresight, he climbs from the lowest rank amid the carnage of the battlefield. He forges an alliance with the Tuoba to secure the northern frontier, earns distinction by putting down Pang Xun’s rebellion, and rises to oversee the military and civil affairs of Yanzhou, commanding the heartland of Guanzhong. Seizing the opportunities of troubled times, he gathers the scattered provinces, restores Hexi, and pacifies Ba and Shu, steadily building his power from the ground up. Heroes have always emerged from chaos. Emperor Guangwu of Han rebuilt a fallen dynasty. Could the Tang, battered by storm and ruin, not give rise to a new founder—one who would reunite the realm and restore its former glory? Starting from nothing in an age of upheaval, a band of Yanzhou border soldiers sets out to sweep away every warlord and bring about a second Guangwu restoration for the Tang.